Re: IO package installation problem

[Nir Krakauer]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 7:01 PM Hamed Shakouri <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Nir,

Thank you for the information.

I try:

>> pkg install io-2.4.11.tar.gz

This message then appears:
warning: (Automatic loading of spreadsheet I/O Java classlibs failed)
For information about changes from previous versions of the io package, run 'news io'.

So, the package is not installed yet!

How this can be solved?

I have already installed Java 8 (64Bits), as you see in the attached PrtSc:

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:13 PM Nir Krakauer <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 2:06 PM Hamed Shakouri <address@hidden> wrote:

Not inside the Octave, but from the webpage, and I put it in the current folder so that it would be found by "pkg install".

Isn't it sufficient?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 9:33 AM Nir Krakauer <address@hidden> wrote:

Did you first do

pkg load io

?

After installing any package, to use the functions in it, you need to invoke in Octave `pkg load package_name`.

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With Regards,

Hamed Shakouri G.

Please keep copying the mailing list.

As long as `pkg install` gives no `error` message, the installation was presumably more or less successful. So you should follow with `pkg load io` and see if the functionality you need works.